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At Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:53:52 +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Subject: Re: /usr/local in PATH
>=20
> Third -- lack of system maintainability is itself a security risk,
> because it makes it harder to upgrade when that's needed.

That's a very good point -- I think it's more or less what I was trying
to get at in the first place about having /usr/local and it's underlying
structure documented, at least as a guide, in hier(7).

The other points you've raised are also very good arguments for
reversing the removal of /usr/local and it's creation from the base
system mtree files and installation procedures.

If one tries to make a system too clean and with too much internalized
navel gazing one ends up with something like POSIX which cannot be used
on its own for any real-world purpose, and which probably cannot even
stand up on its own.

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